Humanism
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A sermon on Star Trek perhaps ought to begin with these fictional characters: But not this sermon. This sermon begins with this real life person: Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 19th century soldier, politician, abolitionist, author, mentor to poet Emily Dickinson, and Unitarian minister. Listen to something he once said about the human spirit: “Our true religious…
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When I was 15 years old, I considered myself the most open-minded person around. Oh, I did. I was intelligent, well read, and don’t forget, sensitive. I was a figure skater, after all. This was not an opinion shared by my high-school English teacher, however. Mrs. Starkey was short and solid, had a flip in…
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The Story of Unitarian Universalist Faith
You know how it is when you’ve taken a thing for granted, and then something shifts and all of a sudden you’re seeing it as if for the first time? That happened for me not too long ago, with something that is printed in every one of our church hymnals, right at the beginning and…
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May 24, 2020 Dear Kurt Vonnegut, You have been called “our most distinguished and indispensable grouch.” You have been described as “a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe.” In your book entitled Breakfast of Champions, we find there a very short story entitled “The Dancing…
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